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Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 21.

Events

• 1892 - In a match up of 300-game winners at Philadelphia Baseball Grounds, Phillies submariner Tim Keefe sinks Jim "Pud" Galvin and the Browns, 2 - 0. The next time two National League pitchers with 300 or more victories will face each other will occur in 2005 when Greg Maddux of the Cubs beats Astros ace Roger Clemens at Minute Maid Park, 3 - 2.
• 1900 - In the last of the 9th at Brooklyn, with two outs and the score tied at 5 - 5 with the Reds, an intentional walk to Deacon McGuire goes awry. McGuire reaches out and taps a Noodles Hahn pitch, but the catcher picks it up, then drops it, and the winning run scores.
• 1902 - At Brooklyn, the Superbas maul the Phillies, 10 - 1, nicking Doc White for 14 hits. Doc gets his due in the four-run 5th inning when he strikes 4 batters out, the first pitcher to strike out 4 in an inning since 1888 and the first to do it at 60' 6" (the record books list Hooks Wiltse in 1906 as the first this century). Bill Dahlen and Charlie Irwin strike out while 2 runs score. Ed Wheeler's swinging third strike gets past Red Dooin with Hughie Hearne scoring. Frank Kitson singles and Jimmy Sheckard strikes out for the 4th K. White fans 5 in the game.
• 1908:
  • According to a Chicago newspaper contest, the Giants' Mike Donlin, the National League's leading hitter, is baseball's most popular player. Turkey Mike tops Honus Wagner by a wide margin and will be awarded a trophy cup. Donlin was involved in a car accident on the 18th when the car he was riding in on Michigan Avenue collided with another vehicle driven by Chicago Mayor Fred A. Busse.
  • In St. Louis, the Cards split with the Giants, with Harry Sallee losing the opener, 4 - 2. Christy Mathewson wins his 21st straight over St. Louis, though he gives up 11 hits in the victory. The Cards beat Dummy Taylor in the nitecap, 3 - 1, in 12 innings.
• 1911 - The Rustlers acquire SS Al Bridwell and C Hank Gowdy from the Giants for Buck Herzog. For Bridwell and Herzog, it is their second tour of duty with their teams, while the young Gowdy will be the Boston catcher for the next ten years.
• 1914 - Dick Rudolph throws a three-hitter to give the Braves their second straight whitewash of the Pirates, winning, 6 - 0. Rudolph will end the year with 27 victories, tied with Grover Cleveland Alexander; one of his credited wins is a game in which he started and left after three innings. The Braves move ahead of the Reds and Phils into 4th place.
• 1915 - Babe Ruth pitches and bats the Red Sox to a 4 - 2 win over the host St. Louis Browns. Ruth is 4 for 4 with a tremendous homer and two doubles, and knocks in three runs. He scatters five hits with the two St. Louis runs coming on Heinie Wagner errors.
• 1916 - Christy Mathewson, in his first game as the Reds manager, puts Edd Roush in CF, and the future star responds with a two-run triple and goes 3 for 5. But the Phils top Cincy, 6 - 4.
• 1917 - The Red and White Sox battle to a 15-inning 5 - 5 tie called on account of darkness. Babe Ruth tosses the last five innings for Boston, giving up no runs in his first relief appearance of the year. Chicago will win the next two games to keep a firm hold on first place.
• 1921:
  • The Indians bang out nine doubles, and the Yankees 7 for an American League record 16 in Cleveland's 17 - 8 win. The Indians cling to a two-game lead.
  • Red Faber wins his 20th game, but it is not easy. He goes 14 innings before edging the A's, 2 - 1. There will be five 20-game winners in the American League, and four in the National League this season.
• 1922 - The Cubs edge Brooklyn, 1 - 0, as Grover Cleveland Alexander wins the duel with Dutch Ruether. Ray Grimes, who drove in three runs yesterday, doubles in the only Cub tally. Grimes now has RBIs in 15 straight games.
• 1926 - Tris Speaker hits his 700th career double in the Indians' 6 - 0 win over the Athletics. Speaker will finish his career with a record 792 doubles.
• 1928 - Jimmie Foxx hits the longest drive ever seen out of Shibe Park as the A's take two from St. Louis, increasing their lead over the third-place Browns to 10 games.
• 1930 - Four pinch-hit home runs are hit in a doubleheader between Brooklyn and St. Louis. Hal Lee and Harvey Hendrick connect for Brooklyn, and George Puccinelli and Jim Bottomley, for the Cards. The homers are the first major-league hits for both Lee and Puccinelli.
• 1936:
  • Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A's, winning, 8 - 0, behind Tommy Bridges, and 9 - 8, as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goose Goslin scores the tying run and Gee Walker, who reaches third base on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.
  • Cardinals slugger Joe Medwick has 10 hits in succession to equal the National League record. He had seven hits in his last seven times at bat in a doubleheader on the 19th, and he hits safely in his first three today. He is finally stopped by the Giants' Carl Hubbell. The Giants break a 1 - 1 tie on Dick Bartell's homer in the 10th off Dizzy Dean to win, 2 - 1.
• 1937 - Rogers Hornsby is fired as manager of the St. Louis Browns for playing the horses; Jim Bottomley takes over.
• 1945 - The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics battle to a 1 - 1 tie in 24 innings. Les Mueller hurls 19 2/3 innings for the Tigers. No hurler has matched this endurance feat since then.
• 1946 - Lew Flick of Little Rock (Southern Association) gets nine straight hits in a 19-inning game. Flick gets 3 more hits in the second game of the doubleheader.
• 1953 - The Milwaukee Braves suffer the worst shutout loss in the history of the franchise, losing to the Phils, 10 - 0.
• 1956:
  • In a 13 - 6 defeat to the Cardinals, Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese becomes one of five active players to collect 2,000 hits and teammate Junior Gilliam sets a major league record by handling 12 assists at second base.
  • Roberto Clemente saddles 13-and-0 Brooks Lawrence with his first defeat of the season as he powers Pittsburgh to a come-from-behind win over Cincinnati. Coming to bat in the 9th with two on, one out and the Bucs down by two, Clemente turns around the second pitch from Lawrence and deposits it into Crosley Field's right-centerfield bleachers. The newly acquired 4 - 3 margin is now entrusted to Elroy Face, working his second inning of relief. Face makes it look easy, fanning Frank Robinson and Ed Bailey, then coaxing a game-ending grounder from pinch-hitter Smoky Burgess to pick up the win.
• 1957 - Cubs relief pitcher Jim Brosnan falls on the mound while warming up, injuring his Achilles tendon. He leaves the game without throwing a single pitch to a batter.
• 1959 - Under intense public pressure and the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination investigation, the Red Sox become the last club to integrate. Fourteen years after the club passes on Jackie Robinson, despite a successful tryout in 1945, Elijah "Pumpsie" Green pinch runs and plays shortstop to become the first African-American to play for the Red Sox. Tomorrow, Green will go 0 for 3 against Early Wynn in a 5 - 4 Sox win that propels them into first place.
• 1960 - Robin Roberts pitches his third career one-hitter, and the third one-hitter of the season in new Candlestick Park. Felipe Alou spoils Roberts' no-hit bid in the 5th inning of a 3 - 0 Philadelphia win. 3B Joe Morgan fields the hit, but falls down and cannot make a throw.
• 1961:
  • Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris slam back-to-back home runs in the 1st inning for New York, but it takes a two-out, 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam by Johnny Blanchard to finally subdue the Red Sox, 11 - 8, at Fenway Park. The pinch slam is the American League's 6th of the season, a new record.
  • With each team stranding 15 baserunners, the Angels and Senators tie the major-league record for runners left on base by two clubs in a nine-inning game. Los Angeles wins, 16 - 5.
• 1962:
  • Houston P Dick Farrell admits to having thrown a spitball to Stan Musial in the previous day's game against the Cardinals.
  • The Reds purchase pitcher Joe Nuxhall from San Diego of the Pacific Coast League. For Nuxhall, it is his third tour of duty with the Reds.
  • Ex-Giant backup 1B/OF Jim Marshall comes off the bench to deliver a particularly gratifying game-ending blow giving the Pirates an extra-inning, walk-off win over San Francisco. 2 for 14 in his previous pinch-hitting assignments for the Bucs, Marshall is sent up to face reliever Bobby Bolin in the bottom of the 11th with the bases filled, one out and the score tied, 6 - 6. Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press reports: "Marshall fouled the first pitch, swung and missed the second, but sent the third toss to deep left. Matty Alou, playing close to make a throw home in case of a short fly, took a few steps backward and then glumly watched the ball fall safely as the fans whooped it up." Willie Mays's tape-measure triple in the top of that frame is considerably longer than Marshall's game-ending blow. Les Biederman again: "The wind changed suddenly in the 11th inning but at the right time for the Pirates. Mays hit a tremendous shot against the right-center wall for a 440-foot triple in the top of the 11th with two out but was stranded. At the time, the wind was blowing to left field. When Mays went to centerfield, he looked up and the wind had shifted to right field. If that happened when he was at bat, Mays' drive would have cleared the wall." Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, collects a double and single and scores two, bringing his hitting streak to 18. Not content with that, he inaugurates another streak, gunning down Willie McCovey at home plate for the second consecutive game.
• 1963:
  • Jerry Lynch's major league record-tying 14th pinch-hit home run, a three-run shot off the Cubs' Lindy McDaniel in the 9th inning, ties the game, and the Pirates win, 6 - 5, in 14 innings. The Cubs take the opener, 5 - 1.
  • The usually mild-mannered Dodger manager Walter Alston is thrown out of both games of a doubleheader as the Braves sweep a twin bill from the Dodgers for the first and only time in Milwaukee, 7 - 2 and 13 - 7. To make matters worse, the Los Angeles skipper has beer thrown in his face by a hometown fan as he leaves the second game.
• 1966 - Minnesota P Jim Merritt beats the Senators, 1 - 0, and ties an American League record with seven straight strikeouts.
• 1969 - A gala All-Star Game banquet in Washington is one of baseball's great events. An all-time team and all-time living team are announced. Babe Ruth is selected Greatest All-Time Player, and Joe DiMaggio, Greatest Living Player.
• 1970 - Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for eight innings, but with two outs in the 8th and trailing 1 - 0, Padres manager Preston Gomez lifts him for a pinch hitter, Cito Gaston. Gaston fails to get a hit off Mets starter Jim McAndrew, and reliever Jack Baldschun gives up two runs in the 9th. The Padres lose, 3 - 0. Gomez will repeat the controversial move on September 4, 1974.
• 1971 - Is this Roberto Clemente's long lost 241st home run? Some spotty official scoring and Dave Giusti's pyromaniacal 9th-inning relief outing conspire to obscure Clemente's contributions to the Pirates' performance. Giusti's silver platter features an RBI single, a walk to load the bases, a game-tying bases-loaded walk to Willie Mays, and a game-winning grand slam served to the Giants' Willie McCovey, turning Pittsburgh's come-from-behind 4 - 2 victory into an ignominious 8 - 4 defeat. This debacle, plus an almost equally dispiriting 10-inning, 8 - 7 defeat tomorrow, will turn out to be a preview of the National League Championship Series, which will have a very different result. Before Giusti's meltdown, Clemente's rope to home plate prevents Dick Dietz from even trying to score from second base on a single. Back in the 7th, with the Giants up by one, Clemente leads off with a vicious line drive back through the box that gets to centerfield in an instant and past Mays before he can get a glove on it, affording Roberto a quick tour of the bases before crossing home plate standing. Scored an error, it's the subject of some choice post-game Mays commentary, as relayed by Giants beat writer Bob Stevens: "It should have been a home run. The error makes no difference to me and I don't really care if the ruling's changed. But I was playing Roberto in right centerfield and I had no chance to catch up to it, it was hit so hard. I guess they gave me an error because they thought I touched it. But it was at least a foot away from my glove when it bounced past me."
• 1972:
  • Billy Williams drives in six runs to lead the Cubs to an 11 - 3 win over the Astros. Williams has four hits, including a double and homer, to give Bill Bonham his only win of the year. Ken Forsch takes the loss.
  • The Yankees sweep the Angels, winning 6 - 0 and 3 - 0. Fritz Peterson and Mel Stottlemyre apply the whitewashes.
  • The Dodgers release P Hoyt Wilhelm, ending his Hall of Fame career two days before his 49th birthday. Wilhelm appeared in 1,070 games, the most of any major league pitcher to that point. He is also the last World War II veteran to play in the majors. He survived the Battle of the Bulge, suffering a permanent neck wound in the action.
• 1973 - Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron hits a Ken Brett fastball into the left-centerfield stands for a two-run home run during an 8 - 4 loss to the Phillies. It is career home run number 700 for Aaron, only the second player to reach that milestone, after Babe Ruth.
• 1975:
  • Ted Simmons has a 4th-inning home run erased because his grooved bat is illegal. The Cardinals play the game under protest but beat the Padres anyway as rookie Eric Rasmussen wins his major league debut, 4 - 0.
  • The Mets' Felix Millan has four straight singles but is wiped out each time when Joe Torre grounds into four straight double plays, tying a major league record. New York loses, 6 - 2, to the Astros.
• 1976:
  • Montreal trades OFs Jim Dwyer and Pepe Mangual to the New York Mets for OF Del Unser and INF Wayne Garrett.
  • The Mets lose to the Reds, 4 - 0, on Fred Norman's four-hitter.
• 1977 - Catfish Hunter tosses a 7 - 0 shutout against the Brewers to snap the Yankees' three-game loss streak. Milwaukee comes back in the nitecap to win, 5 - 4, in 10 innings.
• 1978 - The Indians' Mike Paxton strikes out four batters in the 5th inning of an 11 - 0 win over the Mariners.
• 1982 - Mired in last place in the NL West, 24 games below .500, the Reds fire manager John McNamara and replace him with 3B coach Russ Nixon.
• 1986 - Jose Canseco cranks a Walt Terrell pitch into the upper deck of the CF bleachers at Tiger Stadium. The A's slugger has now hit a home run in every American League park.
• 1988:
  • In a pair of trades, Seattle sends DH Ken Phelps to the Yankees for OF Jay Buhner and 1B-DH Steve Balboni, and deals OF Glenn Wilson to the Pirates for IF-OF Darnell Coles.
  • Red Sox veteran Jim Rice is suspended for three games by the club for shoving manager Joe Morgan. Rice was angered when Morgan replaced him with pinch hitter Spike Owen in the 8th inning of Boston's eventual 9 - 7 win over Minnesota.
• 1990 - In his first major league start, Baltimore's Big Ben McDonald shuts out Chicago, 2 - 0. McDonald was the first overall pick in the 1989 June draft. It is the first shutout in a American League debut in 15 years.
• 1991:
  • The Expos trade P Oil Can Boyd to the Rangers for pitchers Jonathan Hurst and Joey Eischen, and a player to be named later. Boyd last pitched on the 19th, shutting out the Giants, 6 - 0, on five hits.
  • Losing 14 - 1 to the Twins, the Red Sox put OF Steve Lyons on the mound. Lyons, who pitched once last year for Chicago, toils one inning, giving up two hits and recording a strikeout. Kevin Tapani is the winner as the first-place Twins complete a four-game sweep.
• 1992:
  • Royals rookie P Hipolito Pichardo hurls a one-hitter against the Red Sox, defeating Boston by a score of 8 - 0. Luis Rivera's double in the 6th inning is the only safety.
  • Randy Johnson strikes out 13 batters in 6 innings, but gives up 6 runs - 3 earned - in losing to Detroit, 6 - 2. Frank Tanana is the winner. It is Johnson's 8th loss in a row, the longest losing streak for an American League starter this year.
  • Former National League Cy Young Award winner Mark Davis is traded by the Royals to the Braves in exchange for P Juan Berenguer.
• 1993:
  • In Minnesota's 7 - 2 win over Detroit, Tony Phillips goes 0 for 4 with two strikeouts against two Twins pitchers - Kevin Tapani and Carl Willis. It is his only game without a hit, walk or hit by pitch in a string of 101 games.
  • Astros shortstop Jose Uribe walks on a 3-2 count thanks to home plate umpire Harry Wendelstedt losing track of the pitches.
  • Mariner OF Jay Buhner collects five hits in Seattle's 10 - 3 win over the Yankees, who had traded him to Seattle exactly five years prior. Erik Hanson goes all the way, allowing no earned runs to beat Jimmy Key.
• 1994 - The Phillies trade P Shawn Boskie to the Mariners in exchange for a player to be named later.
• 1995:
  • The Reds trade OF Deion Sanders, pitching prospects John Roper, Ricky Pickett and Scott Service, and IF David McCarty to the Giants for pitchers Mark Portugal and Dave Burba, and OF Darren Lewis.
  • Archi Cianfrocco became the first player since at least 1914 (and still the only through the 2015 season) with 6 RBI in a 9-inning or shortened game in which the player entered the game in the 7th inning or later. He actually entered in the 8th inning, hitting a pinch-hit grand slam off Steve Bedrosian to give the Padres a 4-2 lead. He added a 2-run single in the 9th off Mike Stanton to beat the Braves 9-6.
• 1996:
  • The Orioles trade P Kent Mercker to the Indians in exchange for DH Eddie Murray. Murray returns to the Flock needing just eight homers to reach 500.
  • Oakland defeats Texas, 11 - 8, despite five hits - including a double and homer - by Rangers OF Rusty Greer. Terry Steinbach homers twice to extend his hitting streak to 21 games.
• 1997:
  • Four days after the birth of his second child, Yankees OF Mark Whiten is arrested in Milwaukee and charged with second-degree sexual assault on a 31-year-old woman.
  • Phillies ace Curt Schilling fans 15 in eight innings, the most in the National League this season, but loses, 3 - 2, to the visiting Pirates. Home runs by Al Martin and Kevin Polcovich are the difference. Polcovich homers in the 7th after missing a suicide squeeze bunt, resulting in a Buc runner being tagged out. Before the game, the Phillies trade veteran Darren Daulton to Florida for outfielder Billy McMillon.
  • Wilson Alvarez strikes out four Detroit batters in the 7th inning, with Phil Nevin fanning on a wild pitch, in leading the White Sox to a 3 - 0 win over Detroit. Alvarez is the first White Sox pitcher and 28th player to strike out four batters in an inning.
  • Henry Rodriguez, in a 7 for 76 slump, bangs a two-out, 9th-inning grand slam as the Montreal Expos beat the visiting Rockies, 8 - 4. For Colorado, it is the 16th loss in its last 18 games.
  • At Miami, Wally Joyner is 3 for 4 with two walks, to lead the Padres to a 10 - 2 gaffing of the Florida Marlins. Joyner singles, doubles, triples, scores twice, and swipes two bases, including home on the back end of a double steal. The Marlins finally turn to John Cangelosi, who becomes the first position player to pitch for the team. The outfielder walks one in a scoreless 9th inning and retires Joyner on a fly ball. Cangelosi also pitched two scoreless innings for Pittsburgh against Los Angeles in 1988 and one scoreless inning for Houston against Chicago in 1995. Tony Gwynn is 1 for 5 and finishes the four-game series 2-for-17, dropping his average to .385.
  • Angels pitcher Rich DeLucia has surgery to remove an aneurysm in his right shoulder and is out for the season.
• 1998:
  • In Houston, Rockies pitcher Mark Brownson (6-8 at Colorado Springs) makes a spectacular major league debut, firing a four-hit 5 - 0 shutout. Houston's first hit is in the 6th inning. The win snaps the Rocks' nine-game road losing streak.
  • Kerry Wood out-duels Greg Maddux as the Cubs defeat the Braves before a sellout crowd. Woods strikes out 11 in 7 2/3 innings, the 6th time in 18 starts he has reached double figures. For Maddux, it is his first loss to his former team after seven wins.
• 1999 - The Reds defeat the Cardinals, 1 - 0, behind the one-hit pitching of Ron Villone (8 innings) and Scott Williamson (1 inning). OF J.D. Drew's double is the only hit for St. Louis.
• 2000:
  • Thanks to Harold Baines' four hits, the Orioles halt their 20-game Canadian losing streak defeating the Blue Jays, 9 - 5. It is Baltimore's first victory north of the border since June 13, 1998, including games against both the Blue Jays and Montreal Expos.
  • Wasting no time in his new capacity as Cubs GM, Andy MacPhail sends popular OF Glenallen Hill to the Yankees for minor league pitchers Ben Ford and Oswaldo Mairena.
• 2001:
  • The Dodgers set a Los Angeles team record as they trounce the Rockies, 22 - 7, the most runs scored by a Dodgers team since July 10, 1943, when they beat the Pirates. Los Angeles breaks open the game with 9 runs in the 8th inning. The Dodgers last scored 20 runs at home in 1957, beating the Braves, 20 - 4. For the Rockies, it is the fifth time they have had a team run up 20 runs on them; they've yet to do it themselves.
  • The Angels defeat the Orioles, 6 - 5, in 10 innings. 3B Troy Glaus hits a pair of home runs, making him the fastest Angel ever to the 100 career home run mark.
• 2002:
  • The Royals score a run in the bottom half of the 10th inning to pull out a 13 - 12 win over the Indians. Milton Bradley gets five hits for Cleveland, including three doubles and a home run.
  • Orioles P Scott Erickson is arrested after getting into a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. He is charged with second-degree assault.
• 2004:
  • A third piece of concrete, which apparently fell from the park's upper deck, is discovered at Wrigley Field by a club employee. Two other chunks have also fallen recently in different sections of the 90-year-old stadium, prompting Mayor Richard Daley to say he would not hesitate to close sections - or all - of the facility to protect fans from potential harm.
  • Mark Buehrle faces the minimum 27 batters as the White Sox rout the Indians, 14 - 0. Throwing just 90 pitches, the 25-year-old southpaw allows only two hits with both runners being erased as result of a double play.
• 2007:
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates retire Paul Waner's number 11. It is the tenth retired number in the history of the franchise and the first in ten years. The last player to wear the number was Humberto Cota, earlier in the season.
  • Shinnosuke Abe is named MVP after his three-run homer off Masahiro Tanaka helps the Central League top the Pacific League, 11 - 5, in the second NPB All-Star Game of the year. It is the 6th straight win by the CL.
  • Outfielder Willie Harris goes 6 for 6 with two triples, a steal and 6 RBI to help the Braves top the Cardinals, 14 - 6. Harris is the second Atlanta player to get six hits in a game; Felix Millan had done it 27 years earlier.
  • Jamie Moyer and David Wells face off. The two combine for 88 years and 307 days of age, making it the second-oldest matchup of starting pitchers in major league history. The only older duel was between Don Sutton and Phil Niekro in June of 1987.
• 2008 - The Tigers beat the Royals, 19 - 4. It is their third time scoring 19 or more runs this season, the first time a major league team has done that since the 1950 Red Sox. Miguel Cabrera drives in six and Matt Joyce five in the rout.
• 2009 - Sergio Mitre earns his first win since 2007 as the Yankees beat Baltimore, 6 - 4. Mitre underwent Tommy John surgery in 2008, then was suspended for 50 games after testing positive for a banned substance; he allows 4 runs in 5 2/3 innings in his first start after being called up from AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to replace the injured Chien-Ming Wang. A two-run homer by Robinson Cano off Rich Hill and a two-run single by Alex Rodriguez are the big blows for the Bronx Bombers. Combined with Boston's 4 - 2 loss at Texas, the win gives the Yankees sole possession of first place in the AL East for the first time this season.
• 2012:
  • The Cardinals tie the biggest inning in team history when they score 12 runs in the 7th inning, matching a feat from September 15, 1926. Those are the only runs of the game as they beat the Cubs, 12 - 0 behind the pitching of Jake Westbrook. Pinch-hitter Allen Craig collects a pair of doubles during the frame, part of a major league record-tying 7 two-baggers hit during the inning; the Cards' 9 doubles in the game match another team record, dating back to 1931.
  • Jason Kubel hits three homers in leading the Diamondbacks to a 12 - 3 win over the Astros, as Wade Miley sets a franchise rookie record by earning his 11th win of the year. Before the game, the Astros trade veteran P Brett Myers to the White Sox for minor leaguers Matt Heidenreich and Blair Walters.
• 2013:
  • The Dodgers, who were 12 games below .500 earlier this season and 9 1/2 games behind on June 22nd, are now tied for first in the NL West following a 9 - 2 win over the Nationals. Matt Kemp hits a home run and a double in his return from the disabled list, but hurts his ankle sliding home in the 9th.
  • Mike Napoli hits a pair of homers, the second of the walk-off variety in the 11th, as Boston defeats New York, 8 - 7. The nationally televised Sunday night game ends at 12:53 AM.
• 2014 - DH David Ortiz blasts two home runs to lead the Red Sox to a 14 - 1 drubbing of the Blue Jays. The homers allow Ortiz to move past another Boston great, Carl Yastrzemski, on the all-time home run list, as Ortiz now has 453 long balls in his career.
• 2015:
  • Shin-Soo Choo hits for the cycle to lead the Rangers to a 9 - 0 win over the Rockies as Matt Harrison records his first win in 14 months. Delino DeShields pitches in with four hits and Prince Fielder homers in the rout.
  • In an interleague game in Philadelphia, Rays pitcher Nathan Karns homers off Aaron Nola, who his making his major league debut. The homer comes in the 3rd inning for Karns's first major league hit. It turns out to be the only run of the game, the first time a homer by an American League pitcher has accounted for the sole run in a 1-0 game since Milt Pappas did so for the Orioles on April 18, 1962.
• 2016 - The Dodgers do what no other team has been able to do this year: hand Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg a loss. Justin Turner homers twice and drives in 5 runs to lead Los Angeles to a 6 - 3 win. Strasburg is now 13-1 on the year, and had won 16 straight decisions dating back to last year.
• 2017:
  • In a trade of prospects, the Cardinals send P Marco Gonzales to Seattle for OF Tyler O'Neill.
  • The Diamondbacks start off their game with three consecutive homers off Nationals' ace Max Scherzer, as David Peralta, A.J. Pollock and Jake Lamb all hit long balls. However, the game is not decided until the 9th, when Brandon Drury hits a bases-loaded single to give Arizona a 6 - 5 win.
• 2018 - The Mets trade closer Jeurys Familia to the Athletics for two prospects and $1 million in international bonus money.
• 2019 - The 2019 Hall of Fame Class is inducted in Cooperstown, NY, with six former players being honored: Harold Baines, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina, Mariano Rivera and Lee Smith. All are present, save for Halladay, who passed away in a plane crash in 2017 and, who is represented by his wife, Brandy. Rivera, the first player to be elected unanimously to the Hall, gets the honor of speaking last, befitting his status as the greatest closer in history.
• 2021 - Eddy Alvarez is named one of two flag-bearers for Team USA at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that will take place in two days - after a full year's delay. A member of the U.S. baseball team, Alvarez previously won an Olympic medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in short-track speed skating and is vying to become one of the few athletes ever to win medals in both a summer and a winter Olympics. Sue Bird, a member of the women's basketball team, will join him as a flag-bearer.
• 2022 - In the first day of games after the All-Star break, two of the best teams in the majors meet for a doubleheader, with the Astros sweeping the Yankees, 3 - 2 and 7 - 5, at Minute Maid Park. In the opener, rookie J.J. Matijevic scores Alex Bregman from third base with an infield single in the bottom of the 9th, and in the second game, Aaron Judge hits a three-run homer in the 9th, but it's not enough as Houston has built a 7 - 2 lead on homers by Yordan Alvarez, Alex Bregman and Chas McCormick. The Astros have won 5 of 7 games against New York this season.
• 2023 - Kyle Tucker has the first three-homer game of his career and drives in four runs as Houston defeats the lowly Oaklnad A's, 6 - 4. Ryan Pressly earns the 100th save of his career in the win.

Births

• 1861 - John Irwin, infielder (d. 1934)
• 1861 - Perry Werden, infielder (d. 1934)
• 1861 - Fred Wood, catcher (d. 1935)
• 1877 - Irv Young, pitcher (d. 1935)
• 1879 - Hugh Hill, outfielder (d. 1958)
• 1881 - Wally Clement, outfielder (d. 1952)
• 1881 - Johnny Evers, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1947)
• 1881 - Pete Lister, infielder (d. 1947)
• 1885 - Larry Pape, pitcher (d. 1918)
• 1884 - Dick Carroll, pitcher (d. 1945)
• 1887 - Mike Handiboe, outfielder (d. 1953)
• 1888 - Walt Leverenz, pitcher (d. 1973)
• 1889 - Henry Chellette, minor league pitcher (d. 1934)
• 1890 - James Field, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1890 - Howie Shanks, infielder (d. 1941)
• 1891 - Ray Keating, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1893 - Nat Rogers, outfielder (d. 1981)
• 1912 - Billy Holm, catcher (d. 1977)
• 1912 - George Savino, minor league player
• 1915 - Claude Corbitt, infielder (d. 1978)
• 1915 - Connie Creeden, pinch hitter (d. 1969)
• 1917 - Mitch Chetkovich, pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1918 - Chet Hajduk, pinch hitter (d. 2006)
• 1919 - Samuel Burris, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1920 - Masayasu Kaneda, NPB outfielder and manager (d. 1992)
• 1922 - Mickey Taborn, catcher (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Paul Burris, catcher (d. 1999)
• 1925 - Earl Mossor, pitcher (d. 1988)
• 1926 - Dick Smith, infielder (d. 2021)
• 1929 - Jerry Snyder, infielder (d. 2022)
• 1930 - Danny Morejon, outfielder (d. 2009)
• 1935 - Moe Drabowsky, pitcher (d. 2006)
• 1940 - John Bateman, catcher (d. 1996)
• 1940 - Denis Menke, infielder; All-Star (d. 2020)
• 1941 - Nelson Mathews, outfielder
• 1941 - Gary Waslewski, pitcher
• 1942 - Mike Hegan, infielder; All-Star (d. 2013)
• 1943 - Jim Manning, pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1948 - John Hart, , manager
• 1949 - René Acevedo, Puerto Rican national team player
• 1949 - Al Hrabosky, pitcher
• 1950 - Mike Cubbage, infielder, manager
• 1950 - Dennis Myers, minor league pitcher
• 1953 - Steve Smith, coach
• 1955 - Mark Lemongello, pitcher
• 1958 - Dave Henderson, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2015)
• 1959 - Rich Barnes, pitcher
• 1959 - Yasuji Ibe, NPB pitcher
• 1959 - Mark Williamson, pitcher
• 1962 - Tony Metoyer, minor league pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1963 - Karl Allaire, minor league infielder
• 1965 - Mike Bordick, infielder; All-Star
• 1967 - Lance Painter, pitcher
• 1967 - Shoji Toyama, NPB pitcher
• 1969 - Denny Harriger, pitcher
• 1971 - Jairo Ramos Gizzi, minor league outfielder
• 1972 - Kimera Bartee, outfielder (d. 2021)
• 1972 - Kazuharu Yamazaki, NPB pitcher
• 1973 - Brian Buchanan, outfielder
• 1973 - Shawn Livsey, minor league infielder
• 1973 - Shinya Ohashi, Japanese national team catcher
• 1974 - Francisco Acosta, minor league pitcher
• 1974 - Brett Hinchliffe, pitcher
• 1974 - Geoff Jenkins, outfielder; All-Star
• 1974 - Jesus Matos, minor league pitcher
• 1975 - Ernie Delgado, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Tommy Darrell, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1976 - Luis Saturria, outfielder
• 1977 - Ryan Mills, minor league pitcher
• 1978 - Willie Eyre, pitcher
• 1979 - Josh Neitz, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - John Beaven, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Kyuji Fujikawa, pitcher
• 1980 - Yukitoshi Kosaka, Japanese national team infielder
• 1980 - C.C. Sabathia, pitcher; All-Star
• 1981 - Jung-kwon Park, KBO infielder
• 1982 - David Haehnel, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Scott Sumner, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Marco Cano, Ecuadorian national team outfielder
• 1985 - Wei-Yin Chen, pitcher
• 1985 - Rob Wooten, pitcher
• 1987 - Andika Arlistianto, Indonesian national team pitcher
• 1987 - Nicolás Arrube, Argentinian national team outfielder
• 1987 - Diego Moreno, pitcher
• 1987 - Thomas Palica, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Todd Weldon, college coach
• 1988 - Youdai Enoshita, NPB pitcher
• 1989 - Tyler Massey, minor league outfielder
• 1990 - Jake Lowery, minor league catcher and manager
• 1990 - Ren Nakata, NPB pitcher
• 1991 - Taylor Williams, pitcher
• 1992 - Henry Owens, pitcher
• 1992 - Nic Wilson, minor league infielder
• 1993 - Masayuki Kuwahara, NPB outfielder
• 1994 - Matt O'Neil, minor league coach
• 1997 - Jaylen Ferguson, minor league outfielder
• 1997 - Max Kranick, pitcher
• 1997 - Louis Okoye, NPB outfielder
• 1998 - Noah Skirrow, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Will Wilson, minor league infielder

Deaths

• 1918 - Larry Pape, pitcher (b. 1885)
• 1921 - Tom McLaughlin, infielder (b. 1860)
• 1929 - Frank Gilmore, pitcher (b. 1864)
• 1932 - Bill Gleason, infielder (b. 1858)
• 1938 - Skeeter Ebnet, minor league infielder (b. 1915)
• 1938 - Carl Spongberg, pitcher (b. 1884)
• 1953 - Al Kellogg, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1959 - Bill Hoffer, pitcher (b. 1870)
• 1965 - Hugh Bedient, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1965 - Ira Townsend, pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1967 - Jimmie Foxx, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1907)
• 1968 - Ham Wade, outfielder (b. 1879)
• 1972 - Harry McCurdy, catcher (b. 1899)
• 1976 - Earle Combs, outfielder; Hall of Famer (b. 1899)
• 1981 - Jim McGarr, infielder (b. 1888)
• 1987 - Mike Mistovich, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1915)
• 1987 - Hughie Wise, catcher (b. 1906)
• 1994 - Thomas Maine, minor league pitcher (b. 1940)
• 1996 - Walt Moryn, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1926)
• 1997 - Roger Bowman, pitcher (b. 1927)
• 1998 - Harry Ornest, minor league infielder (b. 1923)
• 1999 - Hal Zimmer, minor league player (b. 1932)
• 2002 - Millie Deegan, AAGPBL pitcher and infielder (b. 1919)
• 2009 - Carl Willey, pitcher (b. 1931)
• 2010 - Ralph Houk, catcher, manager (b. 1919)
• 2010 - Mickey McCarty, drafted pitcher (b. 1946)
• 2012 - Wally Jakowczyk, minor league player (b. 1923)
• 2012 - Marie Kruckel, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2013 - Sam Perry, minor league infielder (b. 1988)
• 2013 - Marvin Price, Negro League infielder (b. 1932)
• 2014 - Matt Pliszka, minor league catcher (b. 1928)
• 2019 - Hans Bouwen, Hoofdklasse pitcher (b. 1942)
• 2020 - Butch Hughes, college coach (b. 1941)
• 2021 - Mike House, minor league outfielder (b. 1965)
• 2023 - Mike Ivie, infielder (b. 1952)